The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council considers it necessary to take urgent measures to stop the destruction in the area of pre-graduate education for doctors and dentists. The medical self-government wants to return the standards for the training of doctors to the shape they had before 2021.
NRL: Destruction of pre-graduate education must be stopped
Published Jan. 16, 2024 09:34
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The idea is that only an academic institution with an academic category of A+, A or B+ in the discipline of medical or health sciences could be permitted to establish a degree program in medicine or medical and dental sciences.
As the Presidium of the NRL reminds us, the November 17, 2021 law allows vocational universities, which are non-academic and by definition intended only for practical training, to provide degree programs in medicine and medicine and dentistry. "This was done despite the objections of the medical community rightly emphasizing the impossibility of ensuring adequate educational standards at these universities," the Bureau's position reads.
According to the Medical Council, the effect of the aforementioned changes is an unprecedented increase in the number of colleges training doctors.
"Most of the 'neo-universities' of medicine are unprepared to properly carry out this task. It is impossible not to mention here the leading role of the Ministry of Education and Science, which has been the main designer of the destruction of the system of medical education in Poland and the attempt to felicitate the medical profession," the doctors point out.
In the opinion of the Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council, the competencies acquired at the stage of pre-graduate education by future doctors and dentists are crucial to the quality of the services they provide, and thus to the health of patients and the functioning of health care.
"Future doctors must be educated to the highest standards in academic institutions with highly qualified scientific staff, a teaching base, access to modern laboratories, laboratories allowing, among other things, the use of autopsy material in teaching, especially anatomy, pathomorphology and forensic medicine, and cooperation with multi-specialist teaching hospitals," the Supreme Medical Council postulates.
